I would be careful because the Northern Cupacabra, known for their mud-burrowing skills, will likely be there to take advantage of the situation, looking to suck dry the blood of the victims. Yes, Chupacabra will drink the blood of the deceased, and only Sasquatch, with his heart of gold, can stop them.

Hector Remarkable:I would be careful because the Northern Cupacabra, known for their mud-burrowing skills, will likely be there to take advantage of the situation, looking to suck dry the blood of the victims. Yes, Chupacabra will drink the blood of the deceased, and only Sasquatch, with his heart of gold, can stop them.

I live about 10 miles from where this happened; and I travel that route at least 3-4 times a year. Even though I'm on the southwest Oregon Coast this weekend, my phone has been exploding from friends asking if I'm ok. Pretty tragic.

You can see the landscape scar on the hillside above OSO, across from Steelhead lane nieghboehood, which was wiped out. The scar was the indicator that it was coming down, and it was right next to an oblivious prior slide.

The river is still backing up behind the slide, which filled the river valley. Reports are that the pool has stabilized in size, and the water is finding its way back to the river. But It could blow out at any time and wash up Stanwood.

Some crank on the Seattle TImes website is already blaming the "environmentalists" for this.

The environment only feels free to engage in these acts of aggression because of the apologetic, weak approach the environmentalist employ with it. Real men speak to the environment in the only language it understands - pure, brute force.

Some crank on the Seattle TImes website is already blaming the "environmentalists" for this.

The environment only feels free to engage in these acts of aggression because of the apologetic, weak approach the environmentalist employ with it. Real men speak to the environment in the only language it understands - pure, brute force.

So true. His argument seemed to be that the river should have been redirected, or something. It was the rain that did it, not the river.

Couldn't happen to a nicer place...this is the town that was threatening to kill the high school kid that got hurt when the school's cannon blew up because they weren't going to shoot it during their football games anymore.

Some crank on the Seattle TImes website is already blaming the "environmentalists" for this.

I went to look at said crank's post, and just about put my fist through my monitor. I used to work with him at Boeing, a useless shiathead who was odds-on favorite to bring in a loaded weapon and blow the place away. When he wasn't producing execrable, illegible airplane documentation, he was running his own company from his desk, even answering his phone with the company name ("Terra-tech", if memory serves). He finally slunk out of Boeing before the department deputized itself to drag his sorry ass out to the parking lot and stomp him to death.

I see through Bigfoot's monster coatings to the gentle loner inside. I bet he has a wounded raccoon friend that he's tenderly nursing back to health. And in the end they shoot him, but he'll teach us about stuff.

morgen_benner:Couldn't happen to a nicer place...this is the town that was threatening to kill the high school kid that got hurt when the school's cannon blew up because they weren't going to shoot it during their football games anymore.

/Never forget//Snohomos

morgen_benner you ignorant slut - Oso is nowhere near Snohomish. The incident happened in Snohomish COUNTY.

Tonight they're reporting 8 dead, 18 missing (although they admit that both number are going to climb). There is about 20 houses in that area, about 15 of them were occupied year 'round.

The picture above doesn't give you the magnitude, the slide at the highway is over a mile wide. It is 15 - 20 feet deep in places. It is blocking a rather large river, though now the danger of catastrophic flooding is going down. The river is creating a new channel on the north side of the slide.

I live downstream from this about 15 miles, but on high ground. This is gut-wrenching to watch. God only knows how many cars are under the slide, god only knows how many people were home. I have friends who can't get to their homes but to pack a few things and evacuate. Last night the Red Cross actually had to ask people to stop bringing supplies to the emergency shelter as they flat ran out of room for it all.

1) Clearcutting (look at the treeline) may have had something to do with where this took place and the magnitude... I'm not anti-logging, but I'm not a fan anywhere near steep terrain and waterways or populated communities. That being said, this was clearly an older clearcut just from the age of replanted trees.

2) This area may have already been prone to slides (see the jagged nature of the river in some overhead shots.

3) The soil looks similar to huge amounts of leftovers from volcanic flows. Similar to what you see on the way to St Helens, only much larger in size. Look at a whole new set of insurance costs in Washington in the near future.

nekom:I'm seeing it reported now that there are 108 people unaccounted for. I'm sure some of them will turn up but holy hell that's quite the disaster.

The worst part is the rescue workers could her people screaming for help and couldn't get to them. Mud is 20 feet deep in some spots and moving. It's horrific.I feel for the rescuers s well; that's got to be haunting.

JoieD'Zen:The worst part is the rescue workers could her people screaming for help and couldn't get to them. Mud is 20 feet deep in some spots and moving. It's horrific.I feel for the rescuers s well; that's got to be haunting.

That's the main reason I'm not in that line of work. Firefighters, EMT's, etc. see it all up close and personal. God bless those who are able to do it, because it's critically important work, but I don't think I could manage. I'd probably crawl inside a whisky bottle, never to be seen again.

Momzilla59:morgen_benner: Couldn't happen to a nicer place...this is the town that was threatening to kill the high school kid that got hurt when the school's cannon blew up because they weren't going to shoot it during their football games anymore.

/Never forget//Snohomos

morgen_benner you ignorant slut - Oso is nowhere near Snohomish. The incident happened in Snohomish COUNTY.

Tonight they're reporting 8 dead, 18 missing (although they admit that both number are going to climb). There is about 20 houses in that area, about 15 of them were occupied year 'round.

The picture above doesn't give you the magnitude, the slide at the highway is over a mile wide. It is 15 - 20 feet deep in places. It is blocking a rather large river, though now the danger of catastrophic flooding is going down. The river is creating a new channel on the north side of the slide.

I live downstream from this about 15 miles, but on high ground. This is gut-wrenching to watch. God only knows how many cars are under the slide, god only knows how many people were home. I have friends who can't get to their homes but to pack a few things and evacuate. Last night the Red Cross actually had to ask people to stop bringing supplies to the emergency shelter as they flat ran out of room for it all.

http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/WSDOT-aerial-video-of-sli de -area-251832501.html

and again - morgen_benner is a jackass, even by Fark's standards

To put it in perspective, Snohomish County is almost twice the land area of Rhode Island and a population larger than Alaska. Not huge, mind you, but for a suburban/rural county it's pretty large. Oso is about 20-25 miles north of the City of Snohomish.